Also, I don't think it helps to use this word "hobbyists".
The entire world runs on free open source software written by unpaid
volunteers who are poorly supported, isolated, and exploited by mega
tech corporations that are parasitical on their work.
"hobbyists" sounds demeaning, It makes it sound like the great
under-structure of common coding is somehow less-than-serious, somehow
outside some commercial ecosystem rather than the very soil and food
that sustains it.
This (self) perception needs to change. Big Tech would die tomorrow
without the "hobbyists" it depends on.
Also, I don't think it helps to use this word "hobbyists".
The entire world runs on free open source software written by unpaid volunteers who are poorly supported, isolated, and exploited by mega tech corporations that are parasitical on their work.
"hobbyists" sounds demeaning, It makes it sound like the great under-structure of common coding is somehow less-than-serious, somehow outside some commercial ecosystem rather than the very soil and food that sustains it.
This (self) perception needs to change. Big Tech would die tomorrow without the "hobbyists" it depends on.